- Paperback: 225 pages
- Publisher: Walker & Company (April 2001)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0802776094
- ISBN-13: 978-0802776099
- Product Dimensions: 19.7 x 12.7 x 1.7 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 5,164,614 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
An interesting period piece but a failure as a mystery,
By A Customer
This review is from: Death in Lacquer Red: A Hilda Johansson Mystery (Hilda Johansson Mysteries) (Hardcover)
After thoroughly enjoying Ms Dams books and finding her character Dorothy Martin a vibrant and delightful character I was very disappointed in her new series. Her writing of the period and the life of an immigrant servant I am sure are well researched and accurate. The mystery was contrived and secondary to the story. Hilda Johansson at nineteen, although portrayed as an extremely intelligent young lady, was too brash and manipulating to come across as a character that I would be interested following on further adventures. If some of the characters had been developed further instead of being used just as Hilda's pawns I feel that the book would have had more life and Hilda would have been better portrayed. The most interesting part of the book was Ms Dams portrayel of the servant class at the turn of the century.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
Farfetched and disappointing,
By A Customer
This review is from: Death in Lacquer Red: A Hilda Johansson Mystery (Hilda Johansson Mysteries) (Hardcover)
I loved Jeanne Dams' Dorothy Martin series and looked forward to reading about her new heroine Hilda Johansson. Unfortunately, I found Hilda an unsympathetic and unbelievable protagonist. The plot has Hilda, a Swedish servant in a well-to-do household, investigating the death of a relative of the prominent family next door. Hilda, with sixteen years of a Swedish upbringing and only three years in America (which according to my calculations makes her all of nineteen) is found entering into such wildly diverse activities as rescuing another immigrant wrongly accused of the murder, planting stories in the press, and of course outwitting the police, all while cleaning house. The book is well-researched in terms of the lives of the servant class in the year 1900 but I think Ms. Dams seems more in control of her material when writing about the middle years of her widowed and remarried expatriate Dorothy Martin.
5.0 out of 5 stars
Dams' new heroine is a charmer!,
By A Customer
This review is from: Death in Lacquer Red: A Hilda Johansson Mystery (Hilda Johansson Mysteries) (Hardcover)
Hilda Johansson, a young servant in 1900 South Bend, is gutsy, clever and determined to solve a murder so that an innocent person doesn't get blamed. Dams makes her and the Indiana city come alive with meticulous research involving Notre Dame, Swedish Lutherans and even Decoration Day parades. Hilda lets nothing stand in her way, not even her well-meaning sisters and her "young man", Patrick. With her fellow servant, Norah, at her side, Hilda gets to the bottom of the crimes with a few surprises along the way. I enjoy Dorothy Martin, Jeanne Dams' other series character, but I like Hilda even more. I could see her coronet braids and hear her Swedish accent - that's what good writing is all about.
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